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professor in the Academy of Natural Sci ences and the Wagner Free Institute of Sci ence in Philadelphia, is the latest work of the International Scientific series. The ob
 ject of the work is two-fold to present to the readers such of the more significant facts connected with the past and present distribution of animal life as may lead to a proper conception of the relations of exist ing faunas and to furnish the student with q work of general reference, in which the more salient features of the geography and animal forms can be readily found. The book covers a subject upon which no sepa rate volume has heretofore been written and fills a long felt need. Though scientific work it will be valuable reference book for all. D. Appleton & Co.,, publishers, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "Last Evening With Allston and Other Papers" by Elizabeth P. Peabody, is an i'm portant volume in which the venerable au- thor has brought together series of papers and essays written at intervals of her ex- tended literary career ranging between the years 1880 and 1869. Miss Peabody an intimate friend of the famous American painter, Allston, and saw much of him in his later days. The two leading papers of the collection are devoted to consideration of the life and genius of the lamented artist; a written at the time of their exhibition in
 Boston in 1889. Miss Peabody considers Allston to have been the greatest of Aneri- can painters. Endowed by nature and edu- cation with every advantage, he added to these gifts ''that which alone can give to anyone a place in the poetic school of art-a holy life." Naturally she was affected by her friendship with and admiration for the man in her critical judgment, but in most cases she gives good reasons for her opin- ions. Of the remaining papers of the col lection those which will have the most gene ral interest are "A Vision" which was con- tributed to the Pioneer in 1S43, Brook Farm Interpretation of Christ's Idea of So- ciety," from the Dial, and ''The Atheism of Yesterday' from the Christian Examiner. D. Lothrop & Co.,, publishers, Boston. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Volume III. of the International Educa- tion series is s'The Rise and Early Constitu- ton of Universities, With Survey of Me- diseval Edueation," by s. s. Laurie, ILL. D., professor of the Institutes and History of Education in the University of Edin- burgh. What did the ancients fix upon for a course of study? In what way have we varied from their curriculums What pract1- cal and theoretical reasons prevail in the se- lection of the modern courses? The first be- ginnings of tue university at Athens, Alex andria and Rome, it's revival in the middle ages and it's modern expansion show us the answers to these questions and give us the history of methods of organization, of dis cipine and of instruction. It is interesting to follow the history of education through the dry, formal studies of the ancients and see the part they have played. The becom- ing of Christian civilization is connected with these questions and is therefore fol- lowed out in it's connection with the old heathenism. Another important feature of the study of the book-subject is the infu- ence for conservatism. All these points and more thoroughly discussed. The 1ec lures of which the volume is made up are interesting and valuable, full of information both practical and theoretical for teachers. and for everyone interested Tn methods and matter of study. D. Appleton 6 Co.,, pub fishers, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 A very remarkable religious novel will be found in work of Enrique Perez Escrieh, entitled, ssThe Martyr of Golgotha,'' transla- ted from the Spanish by Adele Josephine Godoy. The object of the work is to give an outline of all the great events witnessed by the people of Israel in the spread of Christianity. The Bible, the ancient GUS toms of the Hebrews and the traditions of the Orient are the basis of the work. In rescuing social law and order from ruin in advancing civilization and art the place of Christianity is acknowledged. In the ad- vancement of mankind, in the depth of the meaning of Humanity" "The Martyr of Golgotba" has shown to us himself and in himself redemption and salvation. Thus working through the lines of prophecy from the beginning to the realization of prophecy and the end upon the cross, tracing Chris tianity in it's spread and influence in mould ing the hearts and lives of men, the book is "a mere stone humbly placed upon the inn mense pyramid of Christianity erected by the immortal words of the Martyr of Col gotha" William s. Gottsberger, publisher, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 ''Some Problems of Philosophy" is a new volume by Archibald Alexander, professor of philosophy in Columbia college. It takes up in discussion the prominent philosophical questions of the day. The Difficulties of Philosophy, the Problems of the Ultimate Nature of Matter, the Origin of Organic Being and of Physiological Psychology; Re lation of Belief to Knowledge; the Human Will; the Immortality of the Soul; the Doc Urine of 8 First Cause; the Infinite; God and the Principle of Right; the Doctrine of Cause aud Effect, etc., are among the topics discussed. The book is we'll worth the con sideration necessary to a thorough perusal of it's pages. MT. Alexander is a clear and forcible writer, presenting his subjects in a very agreeable and instructive way. His Problems" will win 8 way for themselves into the library of every thoughtful reader. Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Another interesting volume has been added to the series of books published from time to time upon the theory of evolution. It is a philosophical inquiry entitled Creation or Evolutiong'' by George Ticknor Curtis. The book is combination of thoughts and conclusions which resulted from a study of the works of Darwin and Spencer. The writer t'is no eoclesiastic" and does not write for the purpose of defending the foundations. of religious belief. The author attempts merely to state and expand the conflicts between some of the deductions of modern science and the principles which regulate all belief. He does not speak of the Biblical account of creation, but of that belief in Creator which is to be deduced from the phenome- na of nature. He advances no arguments in favor Of one or another interpretation of the scriptures about which there is contro- versy, but taking up the proper principles and lines of evidence, he tests the sound ness of a theory which denies that God specially created either the body or the mind of man. How far the hypothesis of evolution, by destroying the belief that God specially created us, tends to negative any purpose for which we can suppose him to have made to us revelation of our i'm mortality is left for the theelogian to con slider. The writer takes evolution at the beginning and follows it out to the end without prejudice and without mental bias in either way. He tries to hold and suc- ceeds in holding only what is in conformity with sound deduction. An imaginary philosopher, Sophereus, or the searcher after wisdom is introduced, debating the doctrine of evolution with a supposed disciple of that school named Koskimos, thus present. ing controversial discussion in the form of debate. Given in this way the thoughts of the writer, in themselves interesting, are clothed with new interest and sustain the